SF School Facts UK

Girls secondary school in Bradford

Belle Vue Girls' Academy

Thorn Lane, Bingley Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD9 6NA

Sixth form Girls
School website 01274492341

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 11 November 2025.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

43.2 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

32% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

60% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

71% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the lower half of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.16confidence interval -0.05 to 0.37

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C-
Average points per entry
26

England average 32.3

A level students
53

Pupils

Pupils on roll
910
Places
1150
How full
79% full — 910 of 1150 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Overall absence
9%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
25%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
38%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
48%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
7%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
94%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
93%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
65%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
187

After sixth form

Went to university
55%

England 50%

In education, work or training
78%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
7%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
89

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

12% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
81%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
82

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Bradford 030A, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
26%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
26%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
74%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
1%

England 17%

Households with no car
16%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
46%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
BRADFORD DIOCESAN ACADEMIES TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Deborah Anness
Local authority
Bradford
Ward
Heaton
Constituency
Bradford West
URN
138087

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Beckfoot Upper HeatonAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 37.3 0.1 mi
Dixons Cottingley AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 46.7 0.7 mi
St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College, A Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter Good 2019 44.5 1.1 mi
Bradford Girls' Grammar SchoolFree schools No grade 44.8 1.3 mi
Dixons Allerton AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 41.7 1.4 mi
Beckfoot SchoolAcademy converter No grade 53 1.6 mi
Titus Salt SchoolCommunity school No grade 40.9 1.8 mi
Bradford Grammar SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.8 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Colchester AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 38.5
Parliament Hill SchoolCommunity school Outstanding 2024 57.1
Eden Girls' School, Waltham ForestFree schools Outstanding 2022 63.5
Holly Lodge High School College of ScienceFoundation school Good 2022 42.1
The Open AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 36.7
The University of Birmingham SchoolFree schools Good 2023 45.5
Caister AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 49.4
Heritage High SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 40

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

All published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. If something here looks wrong, the school's own website is the authority on admissions and open days.